This time, Wolf is proposing a shale tax that would raise about several hundred-million dollars a year for borrowing that would fund some $4.5 billion in spending over four years for a long list of system improvements, including things such as flood control, disaster recovery, revitalization of blighted areas, high-speed internet access, storm preparedness, disaster recovery and transportation projects.

The governor is banking on the sweeping nature of his newest proposal, dubbed "Restore Pennsylvania," to finally win approval of a shale tax, something he has sought since taking office four years ago.

"Focusing on things that, again, explicitly address issues that affect communities all across the state — Republican and Democratic, conservative/liberal, rural and urban — I think makes this a very different proposition. And I think makes it even harder to resist."

But a short time later, state House GOP leaders said Wolf’s new plan was still a non-starter, for what they called its "taxing, borrowing and uncontrolled government spending."